Why AI Agents Keep Breaking Your Code (And What to Do About It)

Picture this: you write a requirement. Clear, specific. The agent reads it, does exactly what you wrote - and breaks three things you never mentioned. Not because the agent is bad at its job. Because the spec was written for a human reader, not a machine. Human developers tolerate ambiguity. They fill gaps from experience. They ask before doing something irreversible. AI agents don't work that way - they fill gaps with whatever their